Just got to my hotel. I see Trump boomers all over the place. In the restaurants, in the hotel, in the lobby, in the CVS, on the road, at the gas station, at the bar, in the mall, on the street. Everywhere!
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Just got to my hotel. I see Trump boomers all over the place. In the restaurants, in the hotel, in the lobby, in the CVS, on the road, at the gas station, at the bar, in the mall, on the street. Everywhere!
I upvoted you because you made me laugh.
I'm a boomer old lady. Grew up with 3 sisters. My dad was staunch Republican and we all were when we were in Florida during the Republican convention that nominated Nixon. All 4 of us teenage girls went to the airport to welcome the candidates. My oldest sister put on a mini-dress provided to those who wanted to be a "Nixon girl" and walked in a group through the airport with Nixon signs, singing campaign songs.
Then my oldest sister went to college, and my two other sisters were swept up in Beatlemania and then into all the music culture. All three were pretty quickly turned to leftists.
The Franklin school had indoctrinated Germany for the Nazi government and then set out to do the same when they took refuge in the US and England in the 1930's. They became ad men on Madison Ave, professors, writers of magazine and newspaper articles and influencers in the arts. They had influenced all of British and American society for 20 years by the time my sisters became liberal/socialist. I believe that a lot of the higher-ups in institutions who gave room for the Franklin School refugees were socialists themselves. Communism/socialism were very popular among the "elite" in the '30's, and they welcomed their comrades into influential positions in the US. Non-elites like my parents did the best they could to teach us and warn us against wrong doctrines, but the communist influence was really huge and perfect for teens seeking to rebel against parents.
I watched you and your Sisters before and at that convention on TV. Small world! One of my older Sisters had to do a report on the election, so I wound up sitting through watching all of it that she did. That was more than enough to turn me apolitical until I heard Rush on the radio while driving a lot for work in the 90's.